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In collaboration with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Zurich, the Zurich Cantonal Police, the Zurich City Police and the Winterthur City Police, a team from the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich has developed a prototype app that automatically transcribes confidential audio and video files. Also in Swiss German.

The app is open-source and based on the Whisper v3 Large model, which enables transcriptions up to 15 times faster than in real time – without license or usage costs. The app offers a wide range of functions such as automatic speaker recognition, multi-file upload, predefined vocabulary and various export options. Transcripts can be edited directly in the application and linked synchronously with the source file.

Hardware requirements: recommend using a CUDA-compatible graphics card with at least 8GB VRAM, as transcription on a CPU is extremely slow.

Source: https://github.com/machinelearningZH/audio-transcription.

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Full integration, editable calendar with two-way synchronisation – more complicated than it could be: https://frightanic.com/apple-mac/thunderbird-icloud-calendar-sync/:

  1. Create an app-specific password for Thunderbird in Apple Account
  2. Go to iCloud online Calendar to get your user-ID, server number, and calendar ID
  3. Open new calendar in Thunderbird, choose “On the Network”
  4. Add iCloud-user as username
  5. Add calendar URL: https://<server-number>-caldav.icloud.com/<user-id>/calendars/<calendar-id>/
  6. Provide app-specific password
  7. Finish.

For the sync of contacts, the URL is: https://<serverID>-contacts.icloud.com/<user>/carddavhome/card/. See: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1384897.

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Easily convert GPX to various formats incl. KML online, or KML to GPX, or also KMZ, CSV, XLSX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON…:

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On Nuudle, one can create polls to arrange an appointment or other simple surveys. In contrary to its sibling Doodle, Nuudle is fully anonymous, without any user-tracking, advertisement etc.: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de.

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The magazine computerwoche.de published a list of handy Open Source Intelligence Tools, incl.:

  • Maltego – comprehensive tool for graphical link analyses that offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable
  • Recon-ng – gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
  • theHarvester – emails, subdomains and names Harvester
  • Shodan – world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices
  • Metagoofil – metadata harvester
  • searchcode – search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
  • SpiderFoot – automates OSINT so one can find what matters, faster
  • Babel X – discover and decipher geographically diverse, multilingual data into actionable insights in real time, babel street’s platform helps interpret real-time data, so one can make clear, decisive decisions that impact any mission
  • Mitaka – browser extension for OSINT search
  • BuiltWith – search tech stack of specific websites
  • Wappalyzer – find the technology stack of any website
  • DarkSearch.io – self-declared “first real” “dark web” “search engine” (yet, no longer publicly available)
  • Grep.app – tool for searches across git repos

The list seems compiled from pcwdld.com, where more detailed descriptions of each tool can be found.

Furthermore, the OSINT Framework helps gathering information from free tools or resources by providing a very good overview of available applications, platforms, methods etc.

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Powerful suite of software to run entire businesses with 45+ integrated applications. With Zoho one can manage, connect, and automate business processes across whole organizations: zoho.com.

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Automated transcripts and translations in 40+ languages: https://sonix.ai/.

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